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Peas, lentils, chickpeas, beans and peanuts: if it comes in a pod then chances are it’s a legume. These unassuming food crops have a special ability that makes them fairly unique in the plant kingdom. They can convert nitrogen gas – which is abundant in the air – to something altogether more rare and important to plants: ammonia. Ammonia can be immediately converted to proteins within a plant, helping it grow. That’s why legume crops don’t need nitrogen fertiliser, and they even leave some of the nitrogen they produce in the soil for other plants to use. Most modern farms add nitrogen to fields in synthetic fertilisers. Since the 1960s, annual nitrogen fertiliser production worldwide has increased by a staggering 458%, boosting cereal production in Europe to more than 188 million tonnes a year. At best, half of the nitrogen fertiliser applied to farmland will be taken up and used by the crop. Much of the remainder is lost to the atmosphere, often in the form of ....
Geographical Magazine Agroecology is farming that works with nature, says Jyoti Fernandes Written by Jyoti Fernandes 11 Mar 2021 Jyoti Fernandes is an agroecological farmer based in Dorset and coordinates the policy, lobbying and campaigning work of the Landworkers Alliance, a British small-farmers union My 17-hectare farm has rich grassland where I keep a small, traditional dairy herd, sheep under orchards, coppiced woodland and a market garden where we grow more than 40 varieties of fruit and vegetable. I started the farm with my family largely because we wanted healthy food and to supply fresh food to our local community. Agroecology is farming that works with nature. It describes any farming system that doesn’t use agro-toxins, instead working with natural processes to produce diverse, nutritious food that’s distributed fairly. The goal of agroecology is to create a food and farm ....